Life In 19x19

Arno,

Thanks for all you have done and are doing for us.

Not to blame yourself. Act of God. Or the Devil, as the case may be.

Hi Arno,

thanks for dealing with the issue transparently.

Did you contact archive.org? They may be able to send you their dump.

Also, you could try to have an "advertisment" on, say, KGS, asking for user snapshots. There's a fair chance WMS would be willing to cooperate (broadcast?).

In case there are costs involved, I'm sure many people would be willing to donate a certain amount ;)

Thank you Arno for all the work!

mafu wrote:In case there are costs involved, I'm sure many people would be willing to donate a certain amount

+1!

I'm not sure that archive.org can help: it is uncertain if/how many pages they have after March 2nd, and the rest (SL archive etc.) is off-limit to bots & crawlers, so archive.org won't have any other data. Right now it looks like that Bing has the most recent versions. If you have a page that was edited in March and which you really care about, compare Bing's cache with SL's version.

Donations: SL is not that expensive to run. With added backup space it is now about $100/month, which I can afford. Even if I could raise several thousand dollars, it would not change SL - unless I'd raise so much that I could quit my job and focus my attention on SL exclusively That is highly unlikely. On second thought: if you're a millionaire looking for a good cause, talk to me!

If you would like to help out, then why not do some LibraryWork? I know that SL is no longer the cool kid on the block, but it still gets 1mio pageviews/month (not counting any robots.) So: help the community at large, contribute and feel good

Time to catch some sleep - I had a busy weekend...